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Mug shot of rapist Troy Graves, taken by the Fort Collins Police Department after his arrest April 23, 2002.

[edit] Fair use for Troy Graves

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
The photo is only being used for informational purposes.

The image Troygraves ftcollinscomugshot.jpg is a low-resolution copy of the mug shot taken of Troy Graves by Fort Collins Police Department following his arrest on April 23, 2002. The image was reduced by 75% of its original resolution to become a low-resolution copy. A higher resolution version of the image was released through the Larimer County's Sheriff's Office website in 2002 and reproduced in media sources throughout the United States. The image was uploaded for inclusion in the English-language Wikipedia for identification of the article subject.

This image is a booking photo, more commonly known as a mug shot, normally produced in the regular operations of a law enforcement agency or correctional facility. It is believed that the use of this photograph

to illustrate the booking consistent with non-free content criteria,
where no free alternative exists or could be created,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work.

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current	23:03, 11 February 2007	200×244 (9 KB)	Oddharmonic (Talk \| contribs)	(Mug shot of rapist Troy Graves, taken by the Fort Collins (Colorado) Police Department after his arrest April 23, 2002. {{Template:Mugshot}})